Captive Lemurs To Depart For Madagascar Oct. 17 For First Release Into The Wild
...urs to their ancestral island nation over the next three years. The first potential release groupsof the long-tailed, tree-climbing primates now live in two U.S. research and breeding habitats: the Duke PrimateCenter and a Wildlife Conservation Society site on St. Catherine's Island off the coast of Georgi...Long-Time NIH Grantee Wins Nobel Prize In Chemistry
... Paul D. Boyer, a long-time NIH grantee, is one of three recipients of the 1997 Nobel Prize in chemistry. Boyer, who is a professor emeritus of biochemistry at the University of California, Los Angeles, received over $4.4 million in research grant support from NIH ...Insects Provide Clues About Bodies Underwater
...decomposing underwater took placein Tennessee only three years ago. No research has been done in Canada. Infact, Macdonell planned to remove her pigs months ago, figuring they wouldhave decomposed by then. "We're still learning about this process inunderwater situations," she says. Fascinated by forensic r...Geologist Finds Evidence Supporting Mysterious Ancient Sea
...lled the gap between ancient continents. There are three basic tools geologists have to determine howthe ancient continents were spread out over the globe: paleo-magnetic data, the fossil record, and the ash beds left bymassive, explosive volcanism. Paleo-magnetic data is difficult to interpret during the...Oral Vaccine Protects Infants From Severe Rotavirus Diarrhea
...healthy infants, eachassigned at random to receive three doses total of either the vaccine or aplacebo. A ...or episodesof diarrhea, defined as the presence of three or more liquid or semiliquidstools, or a single stool with blood, during a period of 24 hours, with ...NIDR Supports Total Genome Studies Of Major Oral Pathogens
...tandard for studying oral pathogens. Over the next three years, these studies will sequence the genomic DNA...list of pathogenic microbes, including the world's three leadingkillers--malaria, cholera, and tuberculosis--that are now targets ofinternational gene-mappin...New Form Of Gene Therapy Holds Promise For The Future
...n. The successful combination consisted of three elements ? one from themouse and two from a virus ...eived. The luciferase gene preceded by the three short pieces of DNA wasgenetically inserted into the viral molecule and injected into mice. Research......d of normal sister rats randomly assignedto one of three groups when they were 5 days old. One group was fed by motherrats. A second group was fed formula through stomach tubes to match the growthrate of the mother-reared rats. The third or experimental group also was fedthrough a stomach tube, but thes...Hormonal Changes At Puberty Can Mask High Cholesterol In Blood
...e children's high cholesterollevels. Over the next three years, boys and girls in the special intervention group hadsignificant declines in low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol, the "bad"cholesterol that leads to blockages in the blood vessels. However, LDL alsodeclined in the usual care group, so tha...Researcher Discovers Plant Genes For Phosphate Uptake
...ns by a Canadian researcher in 1996. Among the big three nutrients -- nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium --... soil phosphorus is the least available of the big three nutrients. When soil phosphorus is sparse and plants can't get what they need, they make some intern...Duke Lemurs Are Released In Madagascar
...mals to their ancestral island nationover the next three years. Black-and-white ruffed lemurs, known for t... on the island. After their arrival in Madagascar three weeks ago, the animals -- Janus,Letitia, Praesepe, Sarph and Zuben'ubi - had spent time in an outdoo...10,000-Year-Old Clues Suggest Future Forest Changes
...glas fir, alder and bracken ferns than today. "All three species growafter a severe disturbance such as fire. We have found a large amount of charcoal in the lake bottoms dating to that period (7,000-9,000 years ago) indicating forest fires," Mathewes explains. He attributes the fires to a drier, warmer cl...UF Researcher Designs Pill To Control Mosquitoes
... "The chlorella stops producing the hormone within three weeks." That's by design, Borovsky said. If the hormone were incorporated into the chlorella genome and chlorella continued to produce the hormone, making it omnipresent in the environment, mosquitoes could become resistant to it. But the hormone sit...Folic Acid Fortification Effective In Cereal Grains
...da, Gainesville, who was involvedin the study with three associates. "The components of the cereal grain foods did not significantlyinterfere with the absorption of the added folic acid." On January 1, 1998, U.S. manufacturers of enriched cereal grain foods are required to add folicacid at a concentration...Strange South American Fossil Mammals Found In Madagascar And India
...Finding representatives of gondwanatheres on these three now widely separated landmasses suggests to us tha...nded paleontological expeditions to Madagascar for three years. Krause's team has discovered a spectacular array of well-preserved and extraordinarily compl...Premies' Lung Disorder Can Cause Developmental Delays
...bies experience at school age. The study examined three groups of 329 infants in the neonatal intensive care units at three Cleveland hospitals; 122 had very low birth weight and had BPD, 84 had very low birth weight without...Researchers Construct Genetic Map For Dogs
...by the genetics community years ago; over the last three years we developed the markers to serve as the cornerstone of the map," said Elaine Ostrander, Ph.D., lead investigator and molecular biologist, Hutchinson Center." Cornell became the catalyst that allowed assembly of the map to begin in earnest two ......96, this disease killed at least 55 bald eagles at three lakes in southwestern Arkansas, along with an unknown number of coots. No other birds or mammals have been found to be affected. Despite the exhaustive efforts of federal, state and private-sector scientists, the cause or source of the dis......oning properly. The investigators have identified three of the genes and gene products involved in palate ...g and a cleft forms in the roof of the mouth. The three key components of the circuit are the growth factor receptor IGF-IIR (hyperactive gene), the growth ...